Duncan Stuart
Duncan Stuart is an Australian writer living in New York City. His writings have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Overland, Jacobin Magazine and The Cleveland Review of Books. Find him on twitter @DuncanAStuart.
Futures Possible
The future is arguably the defining concern of progressive politics. We strive for a better future, and believe the present is insufficient. It is fundamentally conservative to suggest that how it is now is as good as it will ever be. However, politics at both a...
Make Postmodernism Great Again: On the Ills of Blaming Theory for Trump
With the election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit and the rise of right wing populism, we have supposedly entered the post-truth era. Truth is not only under suspicion, it is irrelevant. For many who hold such a view of recent events, the culprit responsible for...
Bearing Witness: Three Digressions Through Art
Modern identity politics is often denigrated; depicted as an irrational mass shouting defiantly about their experiences; a moment of politics that erases the good old fashion posturing of parliamentary debate. While identity politics, like all politics, operates in...
The Clamour of Political Beings
Politics is a noisy place. This can be seen its everyday machinations: parliamentary speeches, the bustle of protests, various heated discussion on the value of free speech. This essay seeks to investigate how western political philosophy has placed a primacy on...
The Greek Crisis: A Democratic Deficit
Introduction The Greek debt currently totals somewhere around 240 billion euros. Throughout what has come to be called the Greek debt crisis, the actions of the European Union has left commentators perplexed and in search of an explanation. The handling of the Greek...Past Issues
